“The Day of the Doctor” You’re going to have to forgive me if my thoughts are a bit scattered. Today I’m a 13 year-old boy again, staying up late on Sunday night to watch my favorite show on WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago. Note: this post contains innumerable spoilers for […] Read more
As much as any episode in Little Busters!, this one felt as if it was a long time coming. Inohara Masato has always been something of a singular figure at the heart of Little Busters. He’s the guy that was always there – Riki’s “best friend”, in his own words […] Read more
Garganitia returns again, filling in some very important blanks. Often with OVAs there’s a bittersweet quality because they might very well be the last incarnation of the series we’re watching in anime form. Not so here, as Suisei no Gargantia has been confirmed for a second season. My mixed feelings […] Read more
Oh, Valvrave – it’s like I’m watching you grow up before my very eyes… As I’m wont to do, let me get the niggling out of the way early so I can focus on the good stuff – and there was a ton of good stuff (and better) in this […] Read more
Yes, we do have those… So I’ve taken the plunge and set up an LiA Amazon Store. The link is in the Navigation bar, and the preview window in the sidebar. This seems like kind of a no-lose proposition to me. It’s a great way for readers who want to […] Read more
When it comes to Okada Mari, context is everything. There are a very few writers in anime who have the impact of making it nearly impossible to discuss one of their shows without focusing on them specifically – Okada and Gen Urobuchi being two of the most obvious. Maybe that […] Read more
Of all the shows I’m closely following this season, this is the one that has me the most confused and conflicted. If you’ll indulge me, I find myself fitting everything about this week’s episode of Golden Time into the box called “duality”. There’s always been a bifurcated nature to this […] Read more
OK, raise your hand if you saw that coming. Under normal circumstances you don’s start an episode post by talking about the end of the episode, obviously. But it seems to me that it would be pretty silly to even attempt to focus on anything else first when all anyone […] Read more
Can it really be my second autumn in Japan already? It’s Koyo season in Japan, when the locals get almost as obsessed with fall colors as they do with cherry blossoms. The weather was perfect yesterday and the season at its peak up in the mountains (we’re still about a […] Read more
Or 08 – or 09, or 14, depending on how you’re counting. Among the many takeaways with Kyousogiga is that it’s a constant reminder of how perspective changes everything. Some of what we’ve seen throughout these first six episodes is little changed from its form in the net episodes – […] Read more